Eight health professionals will be tried in connection with the death of Diego Maradona

These professionals include a neurosurgeon and family doctor, a clinical doctor, a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a nurse manager and nurses.

The prosecution had requested this trial in April, pointing out shortcomings and negligence in the care of the ex-star.

Maradona died of a cardio-respiratory attack on November 25, 2020, alone, on his medical bed in a residence in northern Buenos Aires, while recovering from neurosurgery. He suffered from kidney and liver problems, heart failure, neurological deterioration, and addiction to alcohol and psychotropic drugs.

The eight suspects will be tried for simple homicide with dolus eventualisa typical offense when a person commits negligence knowing that it could result in someone’s death.

They risk sentences ranging from 8 to 25 years in prison, but should appear free at trial, the San Isidro prosecutor’s office having never requested their pre-trial detention.

According to prosecutors, the personnel responsible for Maradona had been protagonist of an unprecedented, totally deficient and reckless home hospitalizationand would have committed a series of improvisations, mismanagement and shortcomings.

An expert report, as part of the investigation, concluded that the former player had been abandoned to his fate by his medical team, leading him to a slow agony.

Psychologist, doctor or nurse, the suspects had all during their hearings, defended their actions, within the framework of their field of competence, at the bedside of the champion.

Leopoldo Luque, attending physician and confidant of Maradona appearing among the defendants, had said to himself proud of what (he) has doneensuring to have tried to help Maradona.

No date has been advanced at this stage for the holding of the trial.